About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_0483
  • TitleSorry New Year
  • SummaryInterior scene in cramped kitchen with young man, mother, grandmother and two babies. Caption on verso: "Sorry New Year: Red Hook family enacts tableau of grim tragedy on traditionally happy New Year's Day following flash fire which burned out two floors of house they lived in at 112 Sullivan St. A cousin, left, cares for child as Mrs. Louis Ayala, right, and her mother feed older child in room without heat or electricity."
  • Date1953
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 11 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteTitle from caption on verso. On verso: date stamped: Jan. 2, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; United Press Association stamp. Grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorUnited Press Associations
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectFires -- New York (State) -- New York ; Disaster victims -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceRed Hook (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Fires: 1953